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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 17, 1994
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Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
Loralee Stevens, residence hall director of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, listens to Patrick Dilley, the Lawrence graduate student who started the Safer Sex Squares at KU, answer a question. The game, played last night, was the final event of Safe Break Week.
Going all the way is game's goal
KU students find safe sex knowledge is winning strategy
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
Several people got lucky at last night's Safer Sex Squares, but no one scored.
That is because the object of the game, patterned after the television game show "Hollywood Squares," was to win a game of tic-tac-toe.
The game featured campus "celebrities" such as student president John Shoemaker and Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center. It was the last event of Safe Break Week.
Contestants chose from nine celebrity panelists, seated at three tables, to answer the moderator's questions about sex and alcohol. They won squares by correctly agreeing or disagreeing with the panelists' responses.
The game made for some snappy dialogue among the panelists. But it looked for a while like panelists and volunteers would outnumber audience members as 8 p.m. approached.
The odds of walking out of Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union with a prize could have been better than 50 percent, according to organizers. The more than 30 prizes were valued together at nearly $500.
Renee Speicher, game moderator and coordinator for the Center for Sexual Health, estimated that more than 70 people drifted into the auditorium for at least part of the game. A number of them failed to register at the door for audience prizes and for chances at being contestants, she said.
Lisa Berscheidt, Seattle freshpan, liked those odds.
"More prizes for us," the one-round contestant said. Berscheidt's consolation prizes were a fabric steamer and a camera.
Registering also paid off for contestant Sonya Bouldin, Overland Park junior and three-round champion. She walked away with the grand prize, a compact disc player, and with more
information about safer sex.
"There should have been more people." Bouldin said. "People should be more concerned about it. I've been through classes with this, and I still learned more tonight."
"The point is just to have fun and disseminate good, educational information," Speicher said.
Safer Sex Squares was sponsored by the Center for Sexual Health Education and the Department of Health Education along with several community businesses.
Other panelists included;
Patrick Dilley, Lawrence graduate student who started the game at KU last year; Laura Guth, Highland Park, Ill. junior and Kansan production manager; Russ Johnson, Lawrence sophomore and JKHK talk show host; Jennifer McDonald, Olathe sophomore and Panhellenic Association president; David Stevens, Wichita sophomore and representative for Student Union Activities; Loralee Stevens, residence hall director of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall and Mike Ward, Des Moines, Iowa, junior and Interfraternity Council president.
SenEx criticizes Wichita column supporting Washburn's rejection
Kansan staffwriter
By Jamie Munn
An editorial column from The Wichita Eagle drew collective disapproval from the University Senate Executive Committee meeting yesterday.
The editorial, which appeared in Sunday's edition, supported the State Senate's rejection of Washburn University's acceptance into the Board of Regents system.
Washburn's acceptance was linked to the Partnership for Excellence, a proposal that would have raised faculty salaries.
"While asking students to pay more
tuition, the Regents did nothing to ensure that higher faculty salaries would improve classroom teaching or boost the academic climate on campus," the editorial stated.
T. P. Srinivasan, head of SenEx, said he and other administrators disagreed with the editorial. He said Chancellor Gene Budig may invite The Eagle's opinion page editor, David Ambrey, to KU to show off the University's strengths.
"The fear is that we should not let the faculty salaries go down the drain with Washburn, "Srinivasan said. Srinivasan said the effort to link the two issues had little interest in the individual propositions.
Wil Linkugel, professor of communication studies, also criticized the editorial and the Senate's vote.
"This brings up the problem that we've never been able to effectively communicate what we do," said Barbara Schowen, associate professor of chemistry.
"To tie those two issues together is the most blatant political ploy I've ever seen," he said.
Linkugel said The Eagle had a short memory and had forgotten how Wichita State University had once been outside the Regents system.
John Altevogt, graduate student SenEx member, said that SenEx could write an editorial response to
Tim Bengtson, associate professor of journalism, said that he thought the message that KU wanted to raise salaries to 100 percent of peer institutions had been lost. Bengtson also said that KU often was unfairly compared to other institutions.
The Eagle and that the paper probably would print it.
"We often compare apples to watermelons," he said.
Altevogt said that Bengtson should write a response to the editorial.
Bengtson then said that he thought few throughout the state would read and understand the response.
"Well, they aren't going to读 it if you don't write it," Altevogt said.
Higher tax may not stop avid smokers
Addiction hard to 'just put away'
By Angelina Lopez Kansan staff writer
But if the Clinton administration's 75-cent tax on cigarettes is approved, this University of Kansas graduate student will be spending an average of $77 a month to support his habit.
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day costs Kevin Schumaker about $56 a month.
Although it is a $21 increase, Schumaker and other KU students said that the higher price of cigarettes would not stop them from having a smoke.
"You lose 75 cents in your couch," said Schumaker. Racine, Wis.
The education coordinator for Lawrence Memorial Hospital's smoking cessation program also said she did not believe the tax would persuade smokers to quit.
This tax will be used to offset the cost of the Clinton administration's health care plan. His administration has said the tax will force smokers, who typically have a large amount of health problems, to pay their fair share of health care costs.
"Smokers have an addiction to smoking," Carol Boncella said. "An addiction is hard to just put away."
Kristi Wilson, Jetmore junior, said that if the administration was concerned with the effect of substances on health care costs, then it needed to tax alcohol as well as cigarettes. As an employee in a doctor's office, she said she saw people every day with health problems related to alcohol use.
Christina Valentine, Topeka junior, began smoking in the seventh grade. She said she wished such a tax had existed when she began smoking. A $3 charge for a pack of cigarettes might have prevented her from buying her first pack, she said.
Wilson, who has been smoking for five years, said she didn't think the tax would have an effect on her smoking habits. But she said she supported the tax because it might force beginning smokers to consider their actions.
Martin Rule, Cranswick, England, graduate student, said a $3 charge for a pack of cigarettes was still cheaper than what he had to pay in England. A pack of cigarettes costs $4 in England because of government taxes. However, he said, 40 percent of the population still smokes.
"The statistics show that high taxes do not have an affect on smoking," he said.
Rule said England had a state-run health care system, but he said he felt the high taxes had nothing to do with the government's concern for health care.
"Smoking is an anti-social habit, and nobody's going to argue when they tax smokers," Rule said. "When they tax smokers, they can get away with it, and they're guaranteed to get paid."
Renovations cause problems downtown
Kansan staff writer
By Cheryl Cadue
Kansan staff writer
Renovation work on a downtown restaurant was more than just a minor inconvenience, said the manager of a neighboring restaurant.
Rick Bupp, manager of the Low Rider Mexican Cafe, 943 Massachusetts St., said that although he had not tallied last week's receipts he thought that the restaurant's business was disrupted and possibly hurt by the construction work being done next door at the Massachusetts Street Delicatessen.
"This definitely did not help our business," he said.
Bupp said trucks and construction materials last week had blocked his restaurant from view and had taken the parking spaces in front of the restaurant. The water also was turned off when the city water department had to install new pipes under the sidewalk, he said.
"I was basically up against a wall last week," Bupp said. "The whole thing is in bad taste. We didn't even know he was cutting into the sidewalk."
Bob Schumm, owner of Massachusetts Street Delicatessen, 941 Massachusetts St., said that he had taken every step to minimize disruption to the neighboring businesses but that construction would continue for at least another 10 weeks.
"I'm sure sorry," Schumm said. "My workers made a point to go over there to eat to try and reconcile. I really do feel bad about it."
Schumm said that to expand the restaurant to the second floor, the city water department had to put in new pipes to comply with city codes. Repairs to the sidewalks were finished, he said.
"I wish I could do this some other way," he said. "The only way to build is from the front. Unfortunately, it is a problem, and I'm very concerned for their business."
Susan Tarman, manager of Blue Heron Bedding, 937 Massachusetts St., said her store had not experienced any problems with the construction. She said she looked forward to the increase in business that the sidewalk cafe could bring.
Carry Engle, owner of Englewood Florist, 939 Massachusetts St., said he had no complaints about construction.
While construction had caused some disruption, the sidewalk cafe would be a welcome addition to the downtown area, said Steve Gutierrez, owner of the Low Rider Mexican Cafe.
"He's really been cooperative about keeping the alley clear for deliveries," Engle said of Schumm. "It's just one of those things that he had to do to have the sidewalk kept closed."
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